We have been through this before from another angle but have something in the Duplin Deeds of interest. Will run it soon as it all gets typed up. Jesse Hardy married Sarah Sutton and somehow there may be a connection with William and Sarah Sowell Hardy. Has anyone ever seen an documentation as to Sarah's parents? The Hardy Book does not give them but indicates she was of Bertie Co. She may have been the daughter of Benjamin (Oxley) Sutton and his wife Sarah said to be a Hardy. Martha